Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.

Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner and their son.

Bibliography

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Novels

• Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992}
• Momoko (1994)
• The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
• The Art of the Engine Driver (2001)
• The Gift of Speed (2004)
• The Time We Have Taken (2007)
• Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride]
• The Lost Life: a Novel (2009)
• Spirit of Progress (2011)
• A World of Other People (2013)
• Forever Young (2015)

Critical studies and reviews

• Review of Spirit of Progress.
• Review of A world of other people.

Interviews

• Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007 [1]
• Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008 [2]
• Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008 [3]

Awards

Commonwealth Writers' Prize	The Time We Have Taken, winner 2008, South-East Asia and South Pacific region
Miles Franklin Award	The Art of the Engine Driver, shortlisted 2002
	The Gift of Speed, shortlisted 2005
	The Time We Have Taken, winner 2008
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	A World of Other People, joint winner for fiction 2014
Prix Femina (France) Best Foreign Novel	The Art of the Engine Driver, shortlisted 2005

External links

• Works by Steven Carroll at Open Library